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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. THE SUNDA CHAIN. RELICS OF AN ANCIENT RACE IN JAVA PAPUANS OF FLORES--SOLOR, PANTAR, LOMBLEN AND OMBAI MARITIME PURSUITS OF THE COAST TRIBES OF SOLOR VARIETIES OF CHARACTER AMONG NATIVES OF TIMOR--TRIBES NEAR COEPANG LOCALITY IN WHICH PAPUANS ARE FOUND PAPUAN OF TIMOR AT SINGAPORE--MODE OF CARRYING ON TRADE WITH THE NATIVES OF THE SOUTH COAST--TRACES OF PAPUANS IN OTHER ISLANDS OF THE ARCHIPELAGO. No traces of a Papuan race have been met with in the island of Sumatra, at least as far as the writer is informed. The relics of a people, who are supposed to have been of an anterior race to the present inhabitants, are found in many parts of Java, and a description of several specimens of ancient instruments, accompanied by figures, is given in the "Natuurkundige Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie" for the year 1850. Some of these figures represent the exact form of the speaf-heads of slate and "baked sandstone," which are in common use among the natives of the northern parts of Australia, and are made by the natives of the interior, who understand the art of splitting them from the rough pieces with a few blows of an axe or hammer of green stone. Mr. J. R. Logan is of opinion that some of the other figures represent "fragments of stone axes shaped like those which are occasionally discovered in the Malay Peninsula, where the Malays, like the Javanese, believe them to be thunderbolts." A collection of these ancient implements of stone, which are also found in China and Japan, where they are venerated as relics of ancestors, f would be highly interesting to the speculative ethnographer; as a comparison could then be made with the stone implements still in common use among those Papuan and Australian tribes which have few facilities for procuring imp...
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. xiv, 239 p., [7] leaves of plates (4 folded). New York: AMS Press., 1978. Hardcover. Seller Inventory # CL00994